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Some cool Central Highlands Map images:

Inverness at Night


Image by IrenicRhonda
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Scary


Image by Anita363
I don’t know what this cloud formation is, but it accompanied mammatocumulus and a violent squall. I think it is part of the smaller, broken layer of scudding clouds below the solid base of the thunderhead itself.

We are not in Tornado Alley here in central NJ, and most certainly are not accustomed to this sort of weather. It felt like it dropped ~20 deg. F as this front came through. I haven’t yet found actual temperature data (pointers welcome) — but I did find www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/090626_rpts.html. You can see this very squall on the national map, as a line of blue points through central NJ; and the text report lists Middlesex County, NJ: "NUMEROUS TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY, ESPECIALLY A LINE FROM WOODBRIDGE TO OLD BRIDGE." What’s more, this same storm system spawned a tornado in CT (the red dot on the map), very rare for this part of the country. It was on all the evening news programs.

Despite the close brush with violence, we never got more than a smattering of raindrops from this storm. The brunt of it must have hit just a couple of miles east of here.

Wreck at Talmine


Image by IrenicRhonda
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